Controversy and Construction in Contemporary Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-68591-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Transcultural Aesthetics

The inclusion of this volume in Brill's Transcultural Aesthetics, a book series devoted primarily to multidisciplinary Western and non-Western aesthetics, is indispensable to enrich the nature and scope of contemporary aesthetics. Time and again, many aesthetic controversies have not been adequately addressed, and this has become a common concern among scholars in contemporary aesthetics. This volume therefore seeks to contribute new perspectives to these controversies by shedding light on some of the fresh views among the leading theorists working in the field today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wang, Jie

Shen, Zheng

de la Garza, Armida

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

About the Authors

Introduction: Controversy and Construction in Contemporary Aesthetics: an Introduction

Jie Wang, Zheng Shen and Armida de la Garza

PART 1: Classical Theories and New Phenomena: Technological Advancements

1 Aesthetics and the Arts of Engagement

Arnold Berleant

2 Adorno, Stiegler, and Industrial Schemata of Experience

Tyrus Miller

3 Social Value and Aesthetic Judgement – Television in the UK

David Margolies

4 Industrial Development of New Media Arts in China

Qingben Li

PART 2: Classical Theories and New Phenomena: Aesthetic Capitalism

5 Baudrillard, Hyperreality, and Emergency Capitalism

Fabio Vighi

6 The ‘Cultivated Imagination as a Condition Precedent for Revolutionary Class-Struggle’

Michael Sanders

7 Contemporary Aesthetics Issues: New Horizons for Researches of Economic Aesthetics in Economic Sociology

Alexander Petrov

PART 3: Transcultural Aesthetics

8 Fiction and the Imagination

Derek Matravers

9 Cultural Industries and the Cultural Front – Historical and Contemporary Reflections

Justin O’Connor

10 Aesthetics of Atmosphere and Intercultural Studies

Zhuofei Wang

11 Practice, Reflection and Inspiration of Art Involvement in Community Revitalization in Japan

Yongjian Wang

PART 4: The Rise of Chinese Aesthetics

12 Identity and Hybridity – Chinese Culture and Aesthetics in the Age of Globalization

Karl-Heinz Pohl

13 The Kowtow and the Eyeball Test

Mario Wenning

14 Intermediality in Qing Ming Shang He Tu: from Visual Image to Music

Germán Gil-Curiel

15 New Research Directions of Marxist Aesthetics: a Case of Contemporary China

Zheng Shen

16 Aesthetic Modernity: a Preliminary Exploration of the Ethnography of Emotions in Contemporary China

Jie Wang and Tian Shi

PART 5: Multidisciplinary Aesthetics: Converging of Fields

17 What Does It Mean to be Human? A Critique of Design Thinking

Harold P. Sjursen

18 Aesthetic Anthropology: Constructing a New System of Contemporary Aesthetic and Art Criticism

Jie Wang and Fanjun Meng

19 ‘Crafting’ an Aesthetics of Science: Textile Artwork and Science Communication

Armida de la Garza and Zheng Shen

20 Contemporary Aesthetics from the Perspective of Cognitive Neuroscience—Centered on ‘Aesthetic Cognitive Mode’

Yushui Liang

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jie Wang is Qiushi Distinguished Professor and Yangtze River Scholar at the College of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University. He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal Research on Marxist Aesthetics.

Zheng Shen is Associate Professor in the Shi Liangcai School of Journalism and Communication at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University. She has published 11 SSCI/CSSCI/A&HCI papers and 2 books, including Contemporary Marxist Aesthetics and Criticism: Interviews with Western Scholars.

Armida de la Garza is Director of International Strategy for the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, and Associate Professor in Digital Humanities at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of one monograph and 27 journal articles and book chapters.